To be completely honest, I become actually enraged when people rank Bryant, Machado, and Donaldson ahead of Nolan Arenado. And I’m a tigers fan. My goodness arenado is statistically better…(not war, but homers and average mostly.

Other than park factors Donaldson has much better on base skills and in my, and probably most others opinion is we know exactly what arenado is but Bryant could get even better. While they’re all close JD probably go Bryant Donaldson arenado Machado

IMO it’s Bryant arenado donaldson machado in that order Donaldson is older and arenado’s splits show that coors doesn’t give him as much inflation as many think. Yeah there is quite a bit in general but arenado on the road is still better, not to mention stellar defense.

IT has taken me a while to cool off my man crush on Arenado, but in my opinion, it simply comes down to where he plays. I know that is not his fault, but I would honestly like to see the numbers that Bryant or Machado would put up playing 81 games a year at coors, or would like to see what Arenado’s numbers would look like playing his home games at a more neutral site.
It is not meant to be a knock against Arenado, its just that I have to wonder whether he would put up those numbers playing somewhere else is all

From 2014-2016, which is a sample of 3937 innings, trout is 6th by drs (-1), 10th by UZR (-9.9), and 9th by UZR 150 (-3.4) for cf. I guess people think that because he is such a good player, he has to be good at defense? I’m not really sure where the misconception comes from.

His numbers this year are pretty interesting, when you look at his home and away splits. Obviously, it’s a very small sample size, so you really have to take that into consideration, but the numbers are pretty shocking, to say the least.

While Arenado is an excellent all-around player, his 2016 numbers do bring up the question of what his batting line might look like if he played elsewhere. That isn’t to take away from Arenado, regardless where he plays, he will still undoubtedly be a top tier player. I’m just curious how different his batting line might be, and if he would go from all-world to just maybe an all-star??

I like the post on WAR for relievers. WPA is not a very good predictive stat, but it’s good for determining how much your relief pitching contributed to winning. Britton led the league among pitchers last year with a 6.39 WPA. second highest was Miller at 5.04, then Lester at 4.99